Dick Corn Quotes (20 Quotes)

I told the kids you will not find a better environment to play in than the one they're going to play in (Friday) night. It will be electric.

The first thing we told the kids when we went in was that we hadn't played very well at all and only trailed by two points. We felt like we could take better care of the basketball and felt like we could guard better. ... We felt like we were in pretty good shape.

We didn't tell them anything they didn't already know. We felt like we needed to be more aggressive. We did catch a little life there towards the end of the second quarter, but we weren't being aggressive at either end. We were settling for 3-point shots and needed to attack the rim a little more.

That was a war. This is one of those games that it's a shame somebody has to lose. Both teams deserved to win. It was quite a contest, and there were two good teams out on the floor tonight.

Late in the ballgame we did a real good job of attacking their zone.

I thought in the second half, we guarded better than we did in the first half and didn't have as many turnovers. It may have worn them down a little bit. I think our depth probably was a factor in the game also.

The best player is the point guard. He can shoot the 3 and can beat people off the dribble. Inside, the big kid does a very good job around the basket. And, they have a couple of other kids that look like pretty good athletes. They aren't real deep, but those six or seven kids are solid players.

That always has to be a concern, but we haven't had that answer. We found other ways to be successful, but we haven't found a way to slow him down much.

This is a heck of a win for these kids. They executed everything that they needed to do, nearly to perfection.

(Sparta is) a much better team than they were the last time we played them. They take the ball inside, and they guard well. ... This was a much closer game than the score indicates.

It looked like we were going to take care of business. We just never could make that one big shot to get us over the hump.

There are probably five or six teams that have a chance in Class A. But you just never know how kids will react coming out of the Christmas break. Strange things can happen.

We are going to have to come out and play every night to win this regional. We aren't the type of basketball team that can just show up and go through the motions. Right now, we are just like everybody else. You want to put together a good week of basketball and see what happens.

When you look at what we trot out there and you look at our physical stature you'd think, well, I don't know. But we do play awfully well together and we've got some basketball skills we can pass it, we can shoot it and we try to guard you. When you've won 21 ballgames in January, you've got to be a pretty good team.

The second half, the reason I'd like the think for that was we did a better job of guarding the perimeter. The second half I thought we got to the perimeter guys a little better.

Even though we never came up with one of those big runs. I thought we made enough of those five and six point spurts to keep a decent cushion.

I actually thought he played pretty well for a guy who had one practice under his belt. I think that has to be a boost for our team.

This is truly a team. If you looked up 'team' in the dictionary, you'd see a picture of the 2005-06 Pinckneyville Panthers.

They don't care who gets the points or the star of the game. Their chemistry is unbelievable. They're good friends off the court. It's just a camaraderie type of thing.

This is really, truly a team. Their chemistry is unbelievable. Their camaraderie...they are good friends off the court, most of them. It's just a camaraderie type thing, a chemistry type of thing. It's what you strive for but sometimes you can't always get that accomplished.